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Tropic of Hockey - My Search for the Game in Unlikely Places (Paperback)
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Tropic of Hockey - My Search for the Game in Unlikely Places (Paperback)
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On a hot summer's day in 1998, when Dave Bidini found himself
watching Martha Stewart rather than the Stanley Cup playoffs, he
knew that something was seriously amiss: The game he loved had
crossed the line. It was now an entertainment, not a sport. A
passionate hockey fan and rec player, Bidini immediately resolved
to follow Canada's best export to the rest of the world, to find
out whether the true game still existed elsewhere.
His quest took him to a rink on the eighth floor of a shopping mall
in Hong Kong-a rink encircled by a fierce dragon-headed roller
coaster-to the gritty city of Harbin in Northern China, where a
game much like hockey has been played for six hundred years; to
Dubai, in the desert of the United Arab Emirates, where hockey is
brand-new, and incredulous Bedouin drop by the Al Ain rink to
wonder at the ice; and to Transylvania, where the game was
introduced in the 1920s by a ten-second newsreel of Canadians
chasing after a puck, and where it is now played as a vicarious war
between Romanians and ethnic Hungarians.
In TROPIC OF HOCKEY, Bidini weaves hilarious stories of encounters
with odd-sized rinks and players of wildly different talents and
experiences with tales of his travels and spot-on observations
about the game and players in North America. And he discovers that
the tropic of hockey connects players and fans around the world in
a celebration of the game-not to mention the profanity, the
exhilaration, and the moments of grace that enrich it.
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